Industry Expert Group

OGF-Europe co-ordinates an Industry Expert (IEG) Group to gain a better understanding of how European enterprises are dealing with issues surrounding interoperations, standardisation and their engagement with the core work of OGF.

A key goal is ensuring that the strategy for Grid adoption by the commercial sector is appropriately aligned with EC objectives.

Through close interaction with European enterprises, OGF-Europe will be instrumental in aligning OGF standards and best practices with the needs of industry.

Fabrizio Gagliardi, Microsoft Research Chair, OGF-Europe Industry Expert Panel (Watch Video)

Read more about the IEG in a special feature by Fabrizio Gagliardi published in our monthly eAnnouncement, August 2008: Addressing the Challenges of a fast-changing IT Landscape.

The first IEG Workshop - Cloudscape: Exploring the Cloud computing landscape and impact of cloud computing on enterprise IT - will be held in Brussels 14-15 January 2008. 

Workshop agenda.

Industry Experts

Fabrizio Gagliardi, Microsoft Research, Chair of the Industry Expert Panel

David Abramson, Monash University
Avner Algom, IGT
John Easton, IBM
Vincent Franceschini, Hitachi Data
Rhys Francis, Australian eResearch Infrastructure Council
Jörg Freund, Siemens
Andrea Manieri, Engineering
Inder Monga, Nortel Networks
Daniel Scheibli, SAP
Bernhard Schott, Platform Computing
Satoshi Sekiguchi, AIST
Raffaele Sgherri, Avanade
David Snelling, Fujistu Labs Europe
Paul Strong, eBay
Martin Walker, Independent Consultant
Gabriel Zaquine, BT France

Specific mechanisms serving this purpose include:

• Permanent Board: high-level experts appointed by OGF & OGF-Europe. Members will be a balanced mix of experts from enterprise, policy-making bodies, academia & research offering strategic support on Grid adoption, Open Standards & policy.
• Extraordinary Board: experts appointed specifically to work with OGF-Europe on selected topics of key interest to the project from both a technical & non-technical perspective.